Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and expansion stage investments. The firm structures and participates in equity and debt financing for start-up and growth companies and also provides incubation services. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in the U.S., Asia, and Israel in a broad range of sectors, which include: Cleantech, Communications, Digital Media &amp; Wireless, Enterprise Automation, Enterprise Infra-structure, Internet Media &amp; Commerce, and Semiconductors. In China, the firm seeks to invest in early stage and late stages businesses. It prefers to make investments in mobile, social media, commerce, gaming, consumer web services, datacenter infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media and consumer electronics, communications infrastructure technologies, networking, wireless, internet media &amp; commerce, internet and e-commerce, semiconductors, cleantech, and other services. In India, the firm seeks to invest in advertising &amp; media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. The firm is currently investing out of Lightspeed IX, a $675 million fund. The firm invests between $10 million to $25 million in growth stages in India, and invests between $2 million to $10 million in early stages in India. Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 1971 is based in Menlo Park with additional offices in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; New Delhi, India; and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.

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Yellow Messenger raised $20000000 on 2020-04-16 in Series B

Yellow Messenger is an information technology company that offers a software platform that serves as an enterprise AI channel for customer engagement. The company specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, customer engagement, customer service, chatbots, and enterprise. 

The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Karnataka, India.

Yellow Messenger

Darwinbox raised $15000000 on 2019-09-25 in Series B

Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. develops cloud-based integrated human resource management and analytics solutions. It offers Darwinbox HR, a cloud-based enterprise HRMS platform that engages and empowers employees, and automates and simplifies HR processes. The company’s solution is used for core HR processes, onboarding, leaves, payroll, attendance, performance management, recruitment, employee movement, talent management, learning management, people analytics, and employee engagement. Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

Darwinbox

Property Share Online Platform raised $2000000 on 2019-03-25 in Series A

Property Share enables its users to go for a unique, fractional property ownership model in a few rented properties. Property Share is a fractional ownership marketplace that allows individual owners to invest in completed residential properties with like-minded investors.

High threshold limits often deters ordinary investors from investing in quality real estate driving them to riskier projects. With Property Share, you can invest as little as Rs. 500,000 to own a share of a high quality development and receive monthly rents.

Property Share Online Platform Pvt. Ltd.

RedCarpetUp raised $3890000 on 2019-03-27 in Venture Round

RedCarpet lends to customers in India to finance their online purchases - ecommerce, travel, etc.

RedCarpetUp lends to customers in India that banks cannot see.

In India, credit and finance companies are able to service less than 10% of the customer base because there is no data, no widespread credit bureaus to profile and score customers. RedCarpet has access to much more data, including data on your mobile phone. They  use this data to service customers who never had any access to credit before.

Today their customer segment is young, future-prime students in colleges who use RedCarpetUp to find credit to fund online purchases - ecommerce, travel, etc. Tomorrow they  hope to unlock credit to all of India.

RedCarpetUp

Innovaccer raised $15600000 on 2016-07-13 in Series A

Innovaccer's aim is to make full use of all the data healthcare has worked so hard to collect. Its Gartner and KLAS-recognized data activation platform and artificial intelligence products have been deployed all over the US across more than 500 locations, enabling over 10,000 providers transform care delivery and work as one. Innovaccer's Data Activation Platform (DAP) TM has been successfully implemented for several institutions, governmental organizations, and several corporate enterprises such as Mercy ACO, Orlando Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, StratiFi Health, UniNet Healthcare Network, Catalyst Health Network, Hartford Healthcare, and Osler Health Network. Innovaccer is based in San Francisco and has 5 offices across the United States and Asia.

Innovaccer

Pepper Content raised $4200000 on 2020-10-13 in Series A

Pepper Content is a content-mediation platform that connects talented writers to organizations that require content. Pepper offers customized content solutions by mediating content from the best talent pool of writers across the nation.

Pepper

acceldata raised $2060000 on 2018-10-23 in Seed Round

Acceldata, Inc. develops an enterprise data observability platform for analytics and artificial intelligence systems. The company’s platform provides data warehousing, data security and protection, data preparation and accuracy forecasting, Internet of things (IOT) for consumer and commercial applications, and data acquisition services. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in San Jose, California; Bengaluru, India; and Berlin, Germany.

AccelData

Priority Vendor raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-04-12 in Series A

Priority Vendor provides working capital solutions to Corporates and their Suppliers of raw material, packing material, transportation and other services to unlock value out of the existing supply chain.

Priority Vendor

MyScoot raised $1700000 on 2019-07-30 in Seed Round

MyScoot is a platform for meeting new people at home-hosted social events in India. The company enables people to discover house parties or host it, making money for dinner parties, brunches, or evening gatherings. MyScoot uses a 5-step verification process to screen users and help ensure a safe environment.

The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Delhi, India.

MyScoot

OkCredit raised $67000000 on 2019-09-13 in Series B

OKCredit simplifies credit account management for shop owners and their customers. It is a mobile based solution that enables recording of credit/payment transactions digitally all across the country. Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad founded it in April 2017, with its headquarters in Faridabad in India.

OKCredit

Uni raised $18500000 on 2020-10-06 in Seed Round

Uni provides new-age credit cards for the digital generation.  Uni aims to bridge the gap in the credit card market by making them more accessible to consumers across different regions.

FreshMenu raised $500000 on 2019-08-26 in Venture Round

FreshMenu offers a food delivery service that provides fresh and tasty cuisines of the highest standard.

FreshMenu’s meal packages are now available for delivery at Koramangala, Richmond Town, Langford Town, Lavelle Road, MG Road, Victoria Layout, Domlur, Old Airport Road, Indiranagar, Ulsoor, Old Madras Road, Whitefield, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Sarjapur Road, HSR Layout, Bannerghatta Road, Jayanagar and JP Nagar areas.

FreshMenu

Udaan raised $49919112 on 2018-02-21 in Series B

Udaan is a B2B trade platform that brings manufacturers, traders, retailers, and wholesalers into a single platform. The platform is about making business easy in India, about making B2B commerce convenient and efficient. They believe B2B is the new B2C in India. It connects retailers with wholesalers and traders who sell more than 15 lakh products ranging across categories from electronics and apparel to grocery and fresh produce.

Udaan chat feature allows you to have a personal and secure conversation in real-time, in a language of your choice. It enables a direct connection between buyers & sellers which allows one-on-one discussions to negotiate terms of trade between transacting parties. India has 50m+ SMBs, who form the core of  the Indian economy and society. They are the entrepreneurial pulse of India. They believe the internet is a great equalizing platform. They want to bring their energies together in bringing the power of the Internet to these millions of entrepreneurs.

Udaan was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Udaan

EbixCash raised $10000000 on 2007-10-12 in Venture Round

EbixCash is an Indian holistic payment solutions company that provides prepaid payment solutions to consumers and various business entities. It offers many consumer solutions such as ItzCash reloadable prepaid card; a prepaid card for Dish TV DTH customers to renew their subscriptions; NoQ24x7 Card, a multi-essential services prepaid payment card to make payments for various bills; and more. Its corporate solutions include cash management services; an online payment gateway; experience-based gift boxes; and more. The company also offers a range of government solutions. ItzCash Card provides its solutions through a network of company-owned and franchised stores, and distributors.

EbixCash

Darwinbox raised $15000000 on 2021-01-18 in Series C

OneAssist raised $18000000 on 2017-06-23 in Series C

OneAssist  is a protection & assistance services platform incorporated in June, 2011. Started by Co-founders Gagan Maini and Subrat Pani, the company raised its Series A finance round from marquee investors Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. OneAssist closed its Series B financing round in July 2015 led by Assurant Solutions, along with Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

OneAssist Consumer Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Teachmint raised $3500000 on 2020-10-29 in Seed Round

Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd. develops and operates a platform for teachers to conduct live classes and interact with students. Its platform delivers two-way streaming video and tutoring business management workflow tools to mark attendance, create content, and conduct tests. The company's platform also allows tutors to create video doubt sessions. Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2020 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Teachmint Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Indian Energy Exchange raised $15593332 on 2010-12-30 in Venture Round

Indian Energy Exchange Limited operates a power trading platform. The company enables price discovery and risk management for participants of the electricity market, including industries eligible for open access. Its products include Day-Ahead-Market, a physical electricity trading market for deliveries for any/some/all 15 minute time blocks in 24 hours of next day starting from midnight; Term-Ahead-Market that provides a range of products allowing participants to buy/sell electricity on intra-day, day-ahead contingency, and daily and weekly contracts; Real-Time Market, an auction session every half an hour with power to be delivered after 4 time blocks or an hour after gate closure of the auction; Renewable Energy Certificates to ease the purchase of renewable energy by the state utilities and obligated entities; and Energy Saving Certificates. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in New Delhi, India.

Indian Energy Exchange

Udaan raised $225000000 on 2018-09-03 in Series C

Magicpin raised $7000000 on 2020-07-15 in Series D

Magicpin is the platform where users and merchants in a locality discover, interact, and transact. For merchants, they are the go-to platform for spotlighting their uniqueness while boosting their revenues and utilization through real-time promotions, loyalty programs, and content updates. For users, they are the destination to find out the buzz in their locality and discover interesting people to connect with and events/merchants to go to.

Magicpin

Magicpin raised $3000000 on 2021-08-30 in Venture Round

QTalk raised $1600000 on 2020-03-07 in Seed Round

QTalk is a smart dialer designed to make any phone conversations fun and stress-free.

Using QTalk, the user knows why someone is calling them with call intents in their incoming call screen and they can also share their calling intent while dialing others. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

QTalk

acceldata raised $35000000 on 2021-09-28 in Series B

Ula raised $10500000 on 2020-06-10 in Seed Round

Ula is an Indonesia-focused marketplace app that uses technology to modernise distribution and credit in traditional retail. It brings the best of selection, prices and payment credit to small and medium sized retailers across categories such as FMCG, staples, apparel, and more.

Shuttl raised $7224965 on 2019-03-28 in Series B

Shuttl exists to take the pain away from the daily commute. Currently, the company provides an app-based office shuttle service to make daily commute safe, reliable, affordable and dignified for everyone. The future of mass transit, according to us, will be shared, eco-friendly, tech-enabled commute. 

Shuttl is the future of public transport. It's a mobile-based minibus service aimed at making your daily commute more convenient. Their vehicles are air-conditioned and operate with high frequency on fixed routes freeing you from the hassles of existing public transport options at a very economical price point.

Shuttl

Ula raised $87000000 on 2021-10-02 in Series B

Magicpin raised $19950089 on 2018-11-23 in Series C

OkCredit raised $15500000 on 2019-06-10 in Series A

Teachmint raised $78000000 on 2021-10-25 in Series B

EkAnek Networks raised $10000000 on 2019-03-13 in Seed Round

EkAnek Networks Private Limited owns and operates as an e-commerce platform influencing brands. The company operates FOXY, an online application for beauty, grooming, and personal care. The company offers range of beauty products from range of brands. The company offers FOXY Live, a platform that enables consumers to live stream content from beauty advisors; and White Label FOXY, a platform that allows brands to go digital with an application and website. EkAnek Networks Private Limited was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Delhi, India.

EkAnek Networks Private Limited

Duta raised $4500000 on 2017-02-22 in Series A

Duta is India’s fastest growing start up and an emerging international media company, serving millions of subscribers across the globe. They deliver breaking news, up-to-the-minute sports, the latest entertainment news, engaging interactive services and devotional content via popular mobile messaging apps, including WhatsApp and Telegram. They’re well funded by VCs who were early stage investors in the likes of Facebook, Lyft and Snapdeal. Their leadership team comprises successful, experienced tech entrepreneurs. Duta is headquartered in Silicon Valley and Chennai, with newsrooms in the USA, India and Spain.

Duta

Revv raised $1200000 on 2018-08-23 in Seed Round

Revv is a no-code document manager that addresses the unique document requirements of any entrepreneur, builder, or creator. Revv provides vetted templates, analytics, intelligence, and optimization to empower these users to run their everyday business hassle-free. 

Revv’s advanced intelligence provides full visibility into the complexities of a document, pinpoints problems that deviate from the standard, optimize processes via activity tracker, and drive revenue growth. Its recent integration with Zapier lets users easily interface with any business application such as Zoho, Salesforce, Slack, and many more 

Since its establishment in 2018, now more than 2000+ businesses worldwide use Revv.

Revvsales

Neuu Store raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-01-01 in Seed Round

Neuu Retail (Bengaluru, India) is a new micro-retail company building a network of smart vending machines to service demand for ‘instant’ or ‘now’ commerce by offering a convenient, personalized and frictionless offline shopping experience.Developer of smart devices intended to make vending machines cashless. The company's device offers machine analytics, accepts physical credit/debit cards, wallet and online payments, enabling operators to make more sales with analytics and promotion software.

Neuu Stores Pvt Ltd.

CredAvenue raised $89743954 on 2021-09-29 in Series A

CredAvenue is a fully integrated, unified digital platform that helps discover, trade, execute and fulfill debt solutions for investors.

CredAvenue

OYO raised $90000000 on 2016-08-16 in Series C

OYO operates a branded network of hotels designed to offer standardized stay experiences. OYO's hotels offer rooms at prices under a reasonable budget segment, along with services like free breakfast facility, holiday packages, refer and earn, among others, enabling customers to access seamless amenities and experiences.

Pixxel raised $5000000 on 2020-08-19 in Seed Round

They started as students from BITS Pilani – an Indian university situated in the quaint little town of Pilani in Rajasthan with the vision and goal of operating and contributing to the cutting-edge of space technology.

Pixxel

Ula raised $20000000 on 2021-01-28 in Series A

Setu raised $15000000 on 2020-04-15 in Series A

Setu’s mission is to accelerate economic growth by making formal finance accessible to all. We do this by providing developers access to banking systems.

Setu

Apna raised $8000000 on 2020-09-01 in Series A

Apna is a recruitment platform that gives opportunities for blue or grey collar jobs. The company works for those who require jobs and those who are looking for the best employees for their companies. It gives maximum opportunities through a single platform for the biggest job groups in India.

The company was founded in 2019 and based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Apna

acceldata raised $8500000 on 2020-10-15 in Series A

Rephrase.ai raised $1500000 on 2020-09-24 in Seed Round

Rephrase.ai helps in creating high-quality videos and animations through an AI-powered visual dubbing tool. It is a developer of a video creation technology designed to take any piece of text and create a video of any person speaking that text. The company's video creation technology uses generative AI tools to learn people's facial features corresponding to any spoken audio, and then reconstructs photorealistic faces for any new given text or audio, enabling clients to create training videos, personalize videos for sales, make characters speak in AR/ VR and give a face to digital assistants.

Rephrase Corporation

Elemential raised $1000000 on 2018-04-10 in Seed Round

An open & accessible development platform to help future generations of blockchain innovators design, run & scale networks with exponentially lower overhead. We do for blockchain what Docker did for containerization.

Elemential Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Dukaan raised $6000000 on 2020-10-19 in Seed Round

Dukaan operates as a platform that enables small merchants to set up online stores in a process that it claims can be done within 30 seconds.

Dukaan

GlobalBees raised $75338720 on 2021-07-18 in Series A

GlobalBees is a company dedicated to finding and scaling great products.

GlobalBees

ShareChat raised $4000000 on 2016-11-23 in Series A

ShareChat is an Indian social media startup. It offers the content consumption and sharing platform only in Indian vernacular languages to cater to over 1.17 billion wireless network users of India. It is available in 15 Indian languages.

The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

ShareChat

Apna raised $70000000 on 2021-06-16 in Series B

Rattle raised $2800000 on 2021-08-31 in Seed Round

At Rattle, we are redefining the way sales and cx teams interact with Salesforce!

We let our users access & manage Salesforce directly from Slack. Since reps practically live in Slack, it is the easiest & most effective way to fix Salesforce adoption issues.

Industry leaders like Terminus, Olive, Litmus, LogDNA & Imply use Rattle every day to save their reps 30 mins/day in managing their pipeline and reduce data hygiene issues by up to 50%.

Rattle

Darwinbox raised $4000000 on 2017-06-20 in Series A

Setu raised $3549686 on 2019-04-11 in Seed Round

BimaPe raised $545000 on 2021-06-23 in Pre Seed Round

BimaPe simplifies Insurance and its Management for individuals and families across India. We are not in the business of selling insurance, we are in the business of helping consumers make informed insurance decisions. Our goal is to put your insurance on "autopilot" -- 'BimaPe Bharosa Karo'

BimaPe

Apna raised $12500000 on 2021-03-02 in Series A

FastFox raised $4642741 on 2017-04-06 in Series A

FastFox is building a central pool of house inventory, gathered by its captive agents from different localities. Their technology allows the agents to dip into this pool and find the most relevant houses to be shown to the customer leads given to them.

Effectively, FastFox.com is a market network of home seekers and captive agents regulated by technology and the central pool of home inventory.

FastFox

Freight Tiger raised $7983577 on 2019-07-02 in Venture Round

Freight Tiger

OkCredit raised $1700000 on 2018-08-22 in Seed Round

FrontRow raised $3000000 on 2020-05-20 in Venture Round

FrontRow offers a learning and community platform focused on creative arts and sports. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

FrontRow

Freight Tiger raised $6514693 on 2021-09-11 in Venture Round

Yellow Messenger raised $4000000 on 2019-06-12 in Series A

Zolve raised $39995733 on 2021-10-26 in Series A

Zolve is a global neo-banking startup that looks to provide banking and financial services to individuals looking at migrating to international geographies.

Zolve

LimeRoad raised $30000000 on 2015-03-30 in Series C

We are passionate about finding things that rise above the mundane; that we think will catch your eye and arrest it. Moreover, to bring these to you wherever you are and whenever you feel you have the time to indulge a little.

So we created a company to bring you products you will fall in love with; to give you a chance to create your own space, to tap into those hidden talents and make your personal looks and collections; to help you share your creations with friends to get that second opinion, to inspire or be inspired; and to help you shop in a way that you will find mesmerizing.

We like to think of LimeRoad as the digital-age equivalent of the 16th Century Grand Trunk Road, a highway that changed the face of trade in the Indian subcontinent.

LimeRoad

Nextbillion.ai raised $7000000 on 2020-06-25 in Series A

Nextbillion.ai aims to deliver a wide range of AI-powered hyperlocal solutions starting with the area of mapping. Nb.ai is working on building the geospatial infrastructure needed for enabling location based experiences for the next billion users. The complexities in markets like India, Indonesia and Nigeria are far greater than the traditional developed countries and we are building the future of location technology. Underdeveloped infrastructure, the rise of mega cities, complex addresses and an ever changing road network make things even more challenging and we are trying to solve these extremely complex problems using a combination of data, AI, platform and people.

Nextbillion.AI Pte. Ltd.

BYJU’S raised $75000000 on 2016-03-22 in Series C

BYJU’S is a  valuable ed-tech company at USD 10.5 billion and the creator of India’s most loved school learning app which offers highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning programs for students in classes 1 -12 and competitive exams like JEE, NEET, CAT, and IAS.  

BYJU'S launched its flagship product, BYJU’S - The Learning App, for classes 4-12 in 2015. Today, the app has over 42 million registered students. With an average time of 71 minutes being spent by a student on the app every day from 1700+ cities, the app is creating a whole new way of learning through visual lessons. 

The Disney. BYJU'S Early Learn App was launched in June 2019, a special offering from BYJU'S for students in classes 1-3 featuring Disney’s timeliness characters. In early 2019, BYJU'S also acquired Osmo, a Palo Alto-based maker of educational games to transform the whole offline to an online learning experience.

BYJU’S

Udaan raised $585000000 on 2019-10-02 in Series D

EkAnek Networks raised $5450582 on 2020-09-14 in Series A

Zolve Innovations raised $15000000 on 2021-02-17 in Seed Round

Dukaan raised $11000791 on 2021-09-05 in Series A

Rattle raised $26000000 on 2022-04-05 in Series A

Darwinbox raised $72000000 on 2022-01-24 in Series D

Yubi raised $137000000 on 2022-03-06 in Series B

Pocket FM raised $22400000 on 2021-12-06 in Series B

Pocket FM is India’s best audiobook app that brings you over 10K+ popular audiobooks in other languages beautifully translated into high-quality audiobooks by expert speakers. Download the app and listen to audiobooks over different categories like biography, romance & love, self-help, motivational books, business & investment, spirituality, health, mystery, podcast & a lot more! With the Pocket FM app you can now listen to the best seller books.

Pocket FM

Pocket FM raised $5596937 on 2020-10-01 in Series A

Scrut Automation raised $3000000 on 2022-02-03 in Seed Round

Scrut Automation

Winzo Cards raised $70000000 on 2021-12-15 in Series A

Nexprt raised $5000000 on 2021-12-16 in Seed Round

Nexprt Solutions offers end-to-end and 100% customized import solutions.

Nexprt Solutions

SuperShare raised $1600000 on 2020-03-07 in Seed Round

Quiph

Teachmint raised $16500000 on 2021-05-04 in Series A

SuperShare raised $6500000 on 2022-02-02 in Series A

Pepper Content raised $14152287 on 2022-06-08 in Series A

BlueLearn raised $3500000 on 2023-02-08 in Seed Round

BlueLearn is the student communities that provides a one-stop platform for students to learn new skills, network with peers, apply for internships and grow as an individual.

BlueLearn

Lio raised $5008450 on 2021-09-22 in Seed Round

Lio lets businesses calculate, tabulate, and organize tasks such as creating to-do lists, wedding registries, and class schedules. The product can be used by home businesses, solo business owners, farmers, doctors, and small to medium businesses, among others.

FrontRow raised $14093029 on 2021-09-21 in Series A